Everyone is fighting over attention and dollars, but underneath that battle is a war for data. And it’s getting ugly.

• While AI’s circular economy uses shadowy data to prop up Wall Street, AI engines eat away at data and IP without asking , while bad actors infiltrate our data and information systems so lazy people can start speaking and thinking in political slop. More on what’s called Ouroboros from Alan Wolk.

• Edward Norton’s EDO got slapped with an $18.3MM judgement in federal court after being caught systematically stealing data from iSpot 3 ways over 6 years- including hacking Disney’s iSpot access to do so.

  (Hold the popcorn, all that evidence that wasn’t already destroyed is heading to the public domain.)

All that and more in this week’s Hot List